Starting a Blog

It takes more written words than it’s worth, so here we go with videos from people who have more talent than me and have taken the time.

…with Blogger, which has become a great platform for casual blogging nowadays, and is cer­tainly the easiest place to start, much

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Blogging Asia

Blogging Asia: A Windows Live Report shows that blogging is already a sig­ni­ficant force in Asia. Haven’t been able to find the original report online, but I’ve been able to piece together the fol­lowing from here, here and here.

46% of the online pop­u­la­tion in Asia have a blog (compared to just 8% of US

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Talking Blogs

Ewan McIntosh has been good enough to provide his notes for a talk giving an intro­duc­tion to blogging he gave at an LTS event. Archly titled ‘Just because you can blog in one click doesn’t mean you should…’, his talk covers seven main themes:

Authenticity: Don’t make your people take the 5th Amendment

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Don’t Get It

Some (mild) outrage about the Jackie Danicki post about her tube attacker here and here and here. There’s talk of lynchin’s in them there blogs. I find that quite bizarre.

Jackie — who I don’t know — was verbally and phys­ic­ally attacked during a tube journey and posted about it, together with a picture of

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Something for the Weekend

I was intrigued to read the headline ‘Widow PC Caters to World of Warcraft Fans’ on Gizmodo. It turns out that it’s a high-​​​​end PC with a very fast network card to optimise your con­nec­tion to the game. Boring.

However, it made me think, and I’d like to register my copy­right on the BlogWidow PC

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Poll Position — UK Last Again

From Hotwire PR comes an ipsos MORI poll of European internet users:

Blogs are now a near second to news­pa­pers as the most trusted inform­a­tion source: A quarter (24%) of Europeans consider blogs a trusted source of inform­a­tion, still behind news­paper articles (30%), but ahead of tele­vi­sion advert­ising (17%) and email mar­keting (14%). High spenders are most

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